“Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.” - John Winston Ono Lennon.
DAVID FROST: “Of course, I imagine, everybody says to you that the Pop world is very short-lived… and ‘What will you do when the phase passes.’ Or ‘Do you think the phase will pass?’ Does it worry you?”
PAUL: “No. I couldn’t care less, really, if we flopped tomorrow. It’d be sad, you know… but it wouldn’t really worry me.”
DAVID FROST: “Could you go back to doing something else?”
PAUL: “I’d miss doing this. But I think I’d think of something else to do.”
DAVID FROST: “What would you like to do?”
PAUL: “Write songs for other people.”
DAVID FROST: “Completely different?”
PAUL: “Completely different. Or… retire, you know.”
(laughter)
DAVID FROST: “Well, it will be a great pleasure to watch Paul McCartney in retirement, but it will probably be in the year about 2010 I should think.”
I didn’t break up the Beatles. The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. They broke up because they had reached an end, but in doing so they all also created new wonderful beginnings.
…For many years I was hated by the whole world. When I met John, I was blamed for breaking up the Beatles, I was blamed for ruining John and I was painted as a dragon. I had to deal with that. John had to deal with that. I could have turned and ran, but that was never an option. People didn’t speak to me or they were just rude to my face. It did hurt and it was tough, but I always kept my focus on the bigger picture. Every day I told myself I was a lucky person because I’d met the man I loved, I wasn’t starving, I wasn’t ill, there was no bomb in my house. I just had to get through it, and it was a great learning curve, because I had to find my own strength inside of me, inside of the two of us.
…For many years I was hated by the whole world. When I met John, I was blamed for breaking up the Beatles, I was blamed for ruining John and I was painted as a dragon. I had to deal with that. John had to deal with that. I could have turned and ran, but that was never an option. People didn’t speak to me or they were just rude to my face. It did hurt and it was tough, but I always kept my focus on the bigger picture. Every day I told myself I was a lucky person because I’d met the man I loved, I wasn’t starving, I wasn’t ill, there was no bomb in my house. I just had to get through it, and it was a great learning curve, because I had to find my own strength inside of me, inside of the two of us.
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| — | YOKO ONO, in an interview with the Daily Mail, in which she also says John Lennon would love the Internet, Twitter, Facebook and Lady Gaga. (via inothernews) |
sorry about the answer to the ask my friends hacked me
WHAT. WHAT ANSWER. WHAT ASK. WHAT. WHO ARE YOU. just kidding i know who you are. but WHAT
I met Iggy Pop at Max’s Kansas City in 1970 or 1971. Me, Iggy, and Lou Reed at one table with absolutely nothing to say to each other, just looking at each other’s eye makeup.
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| — | David Bowie. (via lepermessiah) |
